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Privacy and Security Statement

TTB respects your right to privacy and will protect it when you visit our Web site. During your visit to our site, we will not share the information you give us or that is collected by us, unless your inquiry relates to another government agency, or is otherwise provided by law. Here are some things you should know about how we protect your privacy.

E-mail

  1. When you send us your e-mail we will not keep or share your e-mail address with anyone outside of the TTB staff. We will use only your e-mail address to respond to your requests for information.
  2. You do not have to provide any personal information to visit this Web site. If you choose to provide us with personal information, such as sending a message to an e-mail address on this Web site, or by filling out a form and submitting it through our Web site, we will use that information to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.
  3. We strongly advise you not to submit any tax identifying information via e-mail. Your personal information (Social Security Number, Employer Identification Number, Permit, or Registry Number, etc.) is not protected or secure. In your email you may identify the type of business you would like to discuss, and let us know when and how we may contact you.
  4. If you sign up for our emailing lists, we will only send you the kind of information you have requested. We will not maintain your name on a list and will not share your e-mail address with anyone outside of TTB.

Information Collection

When you visit our Web site to browse or download information, we collect certain information about your visit that does not identify you personally. We use this information to help us design and organize the site according to your needs. If you submit your resume to us electronically, we will use your personal information to consider your application for employment. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau does not create individual profiles with the information we collect or use that information for commercial marketing. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Web site
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site
  3. The date and time you access our site
  4. The pages you visit
  5. If you linked to TTB.Gov from another web site, the address of that Web site.

Cookies

"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies"), or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user logs on to a Web site ("persistent cookies"). The Bureau's Web site and its component sites do not use persistent cookies. One or more of the Bureau's component sites may use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation throughout their sites and for statistical analysis. These session cookies are deleted from the component's server soon after your session ends and are not collected or saved. You can set up your Web browser to inform you when cookies are set or to prevent cookies from being set. You can still use our Web site if you do not accept the cookies, but you may be unable to use certain cookie-dependent features.

Site Security

We monitor visits to our Web site to identify any attempt to tamper with it.

  1. When you submit personal information using our Web site--for example, if you sign up for a conference online--we have systems that make sure people outside of TTB cannot access your personal information.
  2. We would only try to identify you personally when required to do so by a law enforcement investigation. Any information we collect for those investigations is destroyed according to federal guidelines.
  3. Tampering with TTB's Web site is against the law. If anyone tries to tamper with it, they may be punished under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Links to Other Sites

Our Web site has links to other Web sites. When you go to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of that site. TTB cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided there.

  1. Linking to a Web site does not constitute an endorsement by TTB, or any of its employees, of the sponsors of the site or the products presented on the site. If you have any questions, please contact TTB's Webmaster.
  2. Our Web site has many links to our partners, especially other Federal and State agencies. In a few cases we link to private organizations. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
Page last reviewed/updated: 09/04/2012

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